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Rich List 2018: profiles 11-49

The Sunday Times

Kirsty Bertarelli says her love for husband Ernesto inspired the No 1 hit she co-wrote for All Saints in 2000CHRIS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES

The Sunday Times, May 13 2018, 12:01am

11 ERNESTO AND KIRSTY BERTARELLIPharmaceuticals£9.659bn ▼£1.841bnBritain’s third-richest woman — down from the richest last year — Staffordshire-born Bertarelli, 46, is still waiting for her big break. Not content with being crowned Miss UK 1988; with marrying Ernesto, a stupendously wealthy ace yachtsman; and producing three children (all excellent skiers), while remaining missing-rib thin — what Mrs Bertarelli wants most of all is for her singer-songwriter career to take off. “So many people would just go off on their yacht and spend their life drinking champagne, but not me,” she once said.“Singing has been inside me my whole life and I can’t not do it.” She came closest with Black Coffee, a No 1 hit in 2000 for girl band All Saints. She co-wrote the track…